Posts by Adan Mathews

A mother named Alice Velasquez had enough of her teenage daughter’s messy bedroom and decided to come up with the smartest, most evil way to get her to pick up after herself. Velasquez decided to bag up her daughter Tahlia’s entire bedroom into multiple garbage bags and sell each one back to her at $25.00...

Usually when crazy stuff goes down in the supermarket, you have to get real still and pretend you’re shopping while you try to figure out what is going on. Today, thanks to a forum asking Reddit users to share their craziest supermarket stories, everyone gets to hear about what really happened in the produce section, without fear that you’ll be called...

This will story will make you feel bad for eating pizza in bed: Milla Bizzotto is a 9-year-old girl who completed BattleFrog’s Xtreme 24-hour Race, a dauntingly long obstacle course that was originally created for US Navy SEALs. Bizzotto weighs only 53 pounds, proving that big things come in small packages. She often uploads pictures and videos of her doing her badass thing to her Instagram page....

A very stupid scam artist reportedly tried to get money out of the Australian grocery chain Woolworths, posting a picture of her rotten avocados on their Facebook page along side a message where she demanded to be reimbursed. The only problem is this—she just stole a picture that had already been posted on the same page about two years earlier. Which...

Comedian Sarah Silverman made the perfect party anthem for the type of people who hate party anthems, and it will get you pumped up and ready for a night of not going to the club. The song, titled “Perfect Night,” also features will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas, and you know he knows a thing or two about infuriatingly poppy party anthems—the guy pretty much provided...

Marriage is what brings us together, and when people are brought together, disasters occur. We can’t help it—we’re animals. Even (or especially) at a ceremony that represents the civilizing of our baser urges, people get drunk, try to have sex, cry, throw tantrums, fight, have unanticipated bodily functions, and most of all, ruin everything. But...

If you ever wondered what people are being taught in their high school health classes nowadays, one thing is for sure—not anything about female anatomy. Beyond thinking that girls pee out of their vaginas or that periods are made out of the blood of dead babies (pretty much every girl will have to teach some...

Working retail is an often thankless job—working weekends, being on your feet for long hours, and dealing with the worst people humanity has to offer. On the subreddit Tales from Retail, retail workers come together to do something that is usually done the other way around: they complain about their customers, who might be at...

Even though Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard try to keep things as private as possible, Kristin finally chose to show some pictures from their 2013 courthouse wedding.​ CBS Sunday Morning interviewed Kristen Bell about what it’s like to be Kristen Bell, and the whole thing was as lovable and endearing as she is. Bell broke...

If you’re going to turn 80 (and it’s recommended that you at least try), the best way to do it is with an incredible makeup artist for a granddaughter. This is 80-year-old grandma Livia, from Croatia: See the resemblance? Tea Flego’s Instagram account is filled with amazing transformations, but hands down the best are the...

“You look tired.” Those were the words a well-meaning relative said to me minutes after I walked down the aisle and married my husband in front of our family and friends. Not “You look radiant” or “I’m blinded by your ecstatic joy” or “Truly, you are a vision in white,” but “You look tired.” The...

You’re driving a train full of passengers when you see this: F********ck. (Click here for a GIF version) What do you do? With only three seconds to warn his passengers, a Polish train engineer ran through the cars, yelling for everyone to brace themselves, barely leaving enough time for him to save himself. Miraculously, no...

Death: it is the ultimate unknowable. Unless—like these zombies and/or resuscitated people who shared their stories on reddit—you die during surgery or in a car accident and then are miraculously brought back. Whether or not these people were able to accurately remember being dead is debatable—on account of forming memories being something a living person...

Does your sense of personal cleanliness always seem a little more “relaxed” than everyone else’s? Did you ever buy socks and underwear to avoid doing laundry? Have you ever shown up to work to find your desk cordoned off by crime scene tape? It’s possible you might be a garbage human. Take this quiz to...

Writing is hard, and writing without repeating yourself is very, very hard — and as you may have already noticed, one of the most repeated words in English is the intensifying modifier “very.” That’s why the website ProofreadingServices.com created this chart of 128 words you can use instead of placing “very” in front of a...